Every standards-compliant, Google-sensitive image reference should contain 5 key items:
1. A src attribute specifying the URL of the image
2. A width declaration in which the width of the image is specified in pixels
3. A height declaration in which the height of the image is specified in pixels
4. An alt attribute that describes the content of the image—this is the #1 element of image-oriented SEO
5. A title attribute that contains text to be displayed when the user hovers his/her mouse over the image
For this example, we’ll use the image of a yellow hot air balloon at right, which is 220 pixels wide by 212 pixels high.
When we apply the five key items from above with the elements from our example image, we end up with an XHTML image reference that looks something like this:
<img src=”http://www.mysite.com/yellow_hot_air_balloon.jpg” width=”220″ height=”212″ alt=”Yellow hot air balloon” title=”Yellow hot air balloon” />
This advice VIA
When I first read the above referenced article I was blown away with how simple something like this should be to have done from the begining. Unfortunately I have not been following these 5 simple steps to make my image postings Google image compliant. I will have to struggle thru correcting this on all of my image postings as I would like for them to be properly indexed. And who knows according to the articles author doing this will have the benificial side effect of eventually garnering more page views. Which is something that I could certainly use.
